The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.